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Just three miles off Helvick Head on the southeast Irish coast, the navy's three minesweepers and a fishery protection vessel trapped a coastal freighter laden with five tons of arms. The catch was not mammoth as military matériel goes, but it included the kinds of weapons that the Provos have used to murderous effect: 250 submachine guns, 2,000 rounds of ammunition, 200 antitank and antipersonnel mines, 500 lbs. of gelignite, 300 grenades, TNT, explosive fuses and detonators...
...James Helvick is a nom de plume of Claude Cockburn (rhymes with toe-burn), British journalist...
...JAMES HELVICK...
...story as has ever been told. It was made up by Author Truman (Other Voices, Other Rooms) Capote and Director John (The African Queen) Huston during the spring season last year at Ravello, on the Gulf of Sorrento, apparently by stirring Strega fumes slowly into a novel by James Helvick. Because Huston happened to have $1,000,000 and several talented actors at his disposal, everybody fell to and turned the bibble-babble into a movie...
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